Instapy: � Symbol at the end of every comment like #631

[Venni27]

Expected Behavior

Commenting without diamond question mark.

Current Behavior

Every comment has a question mark in a diamond. �

Possible Solution (optional)

InstaPy configuration

import sys
import os
from instapy import InstaPy
use_firefox=True
session = InstaPy(username='username', password='password', nogui=True, headless_browser=True, use_firefox=True, page_delay=25)
session.login()
session.set_do_comment(enabled=True, percentage=25)
session.set_comments([u'Text1! 👌🏻',u'Text2 🥃',u'😍😍😍',u'👍🌞',u'👌👌',u'🥃🥃😁👍',u'🥃👏😄'])
session.set_do_follow(enabled=True, percentage=100, times=3)
session.set_ignore_users(['username'])
session.set_dont_like(['bla', 'bla2', 'bla3', 'bla4', 'bla5'])
session.like_by_tags(['#tag1','#tag2','#tag3','#tag4'], amount=30)
session.unfollow_users(amount=500, onlyInstapyFollowed = True, onlyInstapyMethod = 'FIFO', sleep_delay=600)
session.end()

Running environment:
Raspberry Pi3 (Jessie Lite)
Python 3.4.3
Configfile UTF-8-BOM with UNIX LF

[keusta]

same here, input > ([u' :punch: ', u' 💯 ', u' :bomb: :bomb: :bomb: '])
same result 😬� with or without space

i had previous problems with file encoding iso-8859-15 by defaut maybe the editor

[keusta]

i try with session.set_comments([u':fire: ', u'\u2764']) with unicode limited to 4 but still got this at the end of each comment../

�

[keusta]

Up !
After another try, the � symbol appears also at the end of each comment in simple text without any emoji..
If anyone have an idea where to search to fix this problem..

[Venni27]

No news regarding this?
Do the others have not such a problem?

[keusta]

@Venni27 fixed yead thx to @uluQulu
in comment_util.py
find and replace
rand_comment = (choice(comments).format(username))
with
rand_comment = (choice(comments).format(username)).encode('utf-8')
it works for me

[Venni27]

Thanks for he hint. Will try that tomorrow evening.

[Venni27]

Sadly for me it is not working.
I changed line 38 to this:
rand_comment = (choice(comments).format(username)).encode('utf-8')

But that shows the error:
File "/opt/InstaPy/instapy/comment_util.py", line 66, in comment_image logger.info("--> Commented: {}".format(rand_comment.encode('utf-8'))) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[uluQulu]

@Venni27
You've encoded rand_comment as @keusta said, but in other place in the same function, it is being encoded again which is making the problem

logger.info("--> Commented: {}".format(rand_comment.encode('utf-8')))

Encode it in either one place, since you will encode it in line 38 (_to prevent that symbol from appearing_), the line above should be

logger.info("--> Commented: {}".format(rand_comment))

[Venni27]

Great hint.
Its now working again!
Thank you!!!